LG Display has posted operating loss of 517 billion won in the second quarter, the company said on Thursday.However, the company said it saw panel shipment increase for mobile and TVs due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to a 12% increase in sales to 5.3 trillion won.Loss for the quarter was wors

Flexible transparent electrode maker MSWay has been chosen as the leader in a national project develop building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) technology, the company said on Thursday.The project will last four years and seven months and will be provided 12.2 billion won in public funding.Gwangju I

JNTC will be supplying the 3D cover glass for a European premium vehicle launching next year, the company said on Thursday.The company said it finished preparation to ship its 47-inch 3D unibody cover glass.JNTC built a pilot line for glasses aimed at cars back in 2018. It built a commercial product

Samsung Display, together with the Ministry of SMEs and Startups, will help companies apply smart factory solutions, the company said on Thursday.It will take applications from July 27 to August 26. So far it has provided 42 companies with such support in the past three years.Samsung Display will sh

Samsung Electro-Mecahnics seem set to become of supplier of lens for the cameras on Apple’s iPhones beginning in the second half of 2020, people familiar with the matter told TheElec on Thursday.The South Korean component maker is already a supplier of rigid flexible printed circuit boards (RFPCB) a

LG InnoTek has posted higher than expected earnings in the second quarter of 2020 thanks to its camera module supply for Apple’s iPhone SE and strong performances of its semiconductor and display substrate businesses.The company posted 42.9 billion won in operating profits and sales of 1.5399 trilli

OFilm Group has been included in the list of Chinese companies the US is sanctioning over Uighur human rights violations.The Apple camera supplier was among the 11 companies announced by the US Department of Commerce to have allegedly been involved in repressing Uyghur Muslims and other Muslim ethni

LG Electronics will launch Gallery Design Soundbar in South Korea, the company said.The bar, model name GX, will offer a uniform design with LG OLED Gallery TV, the South Korean electronics maker said.The thinnest area of the bar is 19mm and the thickest 32mm. Its output is 420W.LG the bars will off

LG Electronics will voluntarily commence free repairs for OLED TVs it sold from February, 2016 to September, 2019, the company said. It is due to potential heating problems from power board components in the TVs.A component that minimizes current interference is applied to TV power boards. Some of t

The global display ink jet printing market has become a competition of three major companies __ Tokyo Electron, JOLED and Toray Engineering __ with the decline of Kateeva.Though Kateeva’s equipment for thin film encapsulation in small-sized OLED was once used by market leader Samsung Display and ris

LG Electronics has globally launched its UltraGear gaming monitor (model name: 27GN950), the company announced on Tuesday.It comes with a 4K IPS panel with 1 millisecond response time as well as refresh rates of 144Hz. The monitor won the CES Innovation Award earlier this year.UltraGear's panel is a

SK IE Technology has begun mass production of flexible cover window (FCW) made out of colorless polyimide films (CPI), the company said on Monday.The firm constructed the FCW factory at Jeungpyeong, North Choongcheong Province, late last year.FCW is SK’s own brand for CPI. The company applied hard c

BOE is supplying on-cell organic light emitting diode (OLED) panel __ in which the touch sensor is embedded within the panel __ to Huawei for the first time, people familiar with the matter told TheElec on Monday.The success in winning the order shows that the Chinese display giant is narrowing its

Samsung Electronics will launch a budget-model version in the Galaxy S20 series in October that will have a price tag of around 900,000 won (around US$750) in South Korea, sources within the company told TheElec on Friday.Called Galaxy S20 FE (Fan Edition), the South Korean conglomerate is aiming to

LG Electronics will attend the upcoming IFA 2020 tradeshow in Germany, the company said on Friday.The South Korean tech giant will be holding a press conference at the opening day of the show that will run from September 3 to 5.LG’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO) IP Park will introduce the company’s

UBI Research has reduced its forecast for LG Display’s large-sized OLED panel shipment this year by over 25%.The South Korea display maker is expected to ship 3.6 million units this year due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, UBI Research CEO Choong Hoon Yi said at a conference on Thursday. Thi

Samsung Electronics vice chairman Lee Jae-yong has visited Samsung Electro-Mechanics’ multi layer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) plant for auto-components in Busan, Samsung said on Thursday.Lee visited site to inspect operations and encourage employees, the South Korea tech giant said.The vice chairman he

Seoul Semiconductor has claimed that Everlight lied about its patent lawsuit win at a German court.Seoul Semiconductor said that patent EP1697983, which the Taiwanese company said it won a patent invalidation suit against, did not belong to the South Korean company. The company said it was not the s

Samsung Display has commenced live broadcasting at the business and division level to share its management goals with employees, the company said on Thursday.The South Korean display maker minimized offline meetings in light of the COVID-19 pandemic but expanded such as online meetings to expand in-

Laser company LIS has won a 31.5 billion won order from Chinese display giant CSOT for organic light emitting diode (OLED) equipment, the company said on Wednesday.The deal is equal to 21.77% of its 2019 sales. The contract will expire on August 17.In May, LIS won a 48 billion won order from BOE for